Those mourning the dead would wear these items both to remember the dead and keep reminders of one’s own mortality. More jewellery from the 16th through the 19th centuries. Rare examples survive intact and are highly collectable. More is a Latin phrase meaning “remember that you will die.” It also describes mourning Rings made especially to mark the death of a loved one. They include finger rings, brooches, ensei. Such pieces were not in remembrance of a departed person, but were an abstract warning of death, especially in the 16th and 17th centuries.
as a coffin, a death's-head or a skeleton. A motif used as decoration on various articles in the form of a reminder of mortality, e.g.
Memento mori Latin for: 'remember you are only mortal'. After all it featured heavily in their lives from still births onwards. The Victorians had a fascination with death.
